Foldable form



A. Z. BAKER.

FOLDABLE FORM. APPLICATION F|LEDOCT.7|192l- Patented Dec. 5, 1922.

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FOLDABLE FORM.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 7. I921.

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lam st filed October 7, 1921'. Seria1 No. 506 ,150.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthatil, ALFRED Z. BAKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and, useful Improvements in Foldable Forms, ofwhich the following is a full; clear, and. exact specification;

My invention relatesto foldable forms and-refers particularly to formscapable of being folded into areprcsentationofan ele phant. f

" y The object of my invention. is twoforms of cardboard or otherfoldable material, of

such form and construction as to be readily folded into therepresentationof a head of an elephant. and a body of an elephantandcapable ofbeingsoattached to each other as to produce therepresentationof an ele- .The device. of my invention therefore,presents a means whereby two flat forms, or patterns, may be readilyfolded'to represent an elephant.

In the accompanying drawings represent I mg the device of my mventlon,similar parts are designated by. similar numerals.

The head form comprises a front-headelement 10, being extended into thetwo cheek elements 11 and 11 having respectively the tongues 12, 13, 12-and13 and. the slot openings 14, 15, 16, 17 14:, 15, 16-

and 17 The cheek elements have the outwardly extended ear elements 18and 18'. Extending outwardly from the element 10 is a trunk element 19having a seriesof extended elements 20. 20. 20. Extendingoutwardly fromthe element 10 is thejhead element 21 which is further extended into thetop-head element 22, which is extended into the rear-element 28. Theelement 22 has the;

Figure 1 is a top plan of my folded de -i extended catchzfiaps 24, 24:and the element andf25'ifl. i

i The head formis'foldedasfollowsE I The element 21 is folded backwardlyi and upwardly along the line AA, the element 23 has thefl extendedcatch flaps ,25,; 26 I 22 is folded backwardly and downwardly along theline B-eB, the element-23m folded vertically downwardly along the lineCC,

. and theelement 23 still further folded forwardly alongithe line D- Dyand then. some what downwardly along the line The elements and 11' arefolded back-- I wardly respectively along the lines A-.F

and A-eH and the elements 18 and'18 are folded, along the indicated.dotted lines and insertedthroughthe slots 16, 17, 16', 1'1 14: 15, 14'and 15',-thus lockingthe I head form -to gether. The trunk elements 20,20, '20 are folded vertically at right angles .to the element 19 alongthe indicated dotted folded outwardly at right-angles to the elements 11and. 11. along. the lines T+I and I'I. The catchflaps-fZL, 24,25 and 25lines. Thehead form then has the appear w ance shown in Figures 1, 2 and3.

1 The body form comprises a back element 50 extended intothesideelements51 and '51" having'the leg elements 52, 53. 52" and 53andthe extended lock members 54-, 55,;

54' and 55. The back. element 5() is extended into the forward element56 and the rear element 57 carrying the tail element 58.

The element 51 has the slot openings 59 and 60. y I v .The body form isfolded as follows:

The elements 51and 51' are folded ver I tically downwardly along thelines K-K" and L L. The elements 5d and 54: are folded atright angles tothe elements 51 and 51 along the lines M-M and M-M and the catch'54inserted in the slot 59.

The elements 55 and 55 are-folded at right angles to the elements 51 and51 along, the

dotted lines N-N and NN and the catch- 55" inserted in the slot 60. Theelement 57 is then folded downwardly along theline K-L and then foldedslightly inwardly along the lines K-P and L-P to form the rear of theelephant, then along the lines P-R and P- R to allow the extremity ofthe element to be placed beneath the elements 54 and 55, a slightdownward folding along the line PP allowing the tailelement 58 foldedforwardly and slightly downwardly to hang downwardly. Theelement 56isalong; the line KL and then vertically downwardly along the line R-R.A fold of the elementsol and 51 along the lines M-K and M-K allows thesmall triangular element thus formed to be inserted be neath the element56. A staple 61 passed through the holes 62 and 63 fastens together therear portion of the body form, which then has the appearance shown .inFigures 1, 2, 3 and 4.

A staple 64-. passing through the holes 65, 66 and 6'7, fastens the headform tothe body form producing the representation of an elephant asshown in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4t.

It will thus be seen that the device of my invention presents a readymeans for tolding a foldable form into the representation of anelephant.

I do not limit myself to the particular size, shape, number orarrangement of the elements of the form as described and shown, allofwhich may be varied without going beyond the scope of my invention asshown,

described and claimed.

What I claim is:

1. In a toldableform, in combination, a head form comprising a headelementeX- tended into oppositely opposed side-head elements, carryingear elements, a trunk element extending from the head element, and anelement extending from the head element capable of being folded to formthe rear portion and under portion of the head, with locking meanswhereby the head form may be lockedinto position to form arepresentation of an elephants head; a body form comprising a backelement carrying oppositely opposed side elements having extended legelements and means whereby the side ele- 1ne.nts may be locked in,position when the form is folded, an extended rear element carrying'atail element carried by'the back element, a forward element carried bythe back element, whereby the body form may be folded to :tormarepresentation of an elephants body, and means whereby the head elementand the body element may be attached to each other to form arepresentation of an elephant.

2. In a foldable form, in combination, a head form comprising aheadlelement'extended into oppositely opposed side-head ele merits.having a plurality of slots and being extended into ear elements, atrunk element extendingv from the head element, an ele- I mentextending; from the head element carrying a plurality of v capable ofinsertion within the slots of the side-head element when the device isfolded to form and maintain a representation of an elephants head; abody element comprising a back element extended into oppositely opposedcorresponding side elements having leg element. extensions, a pluralityof,

slots in one side element, aplurality oflocle ing members in the otherside 1 element capable of insertion within the slots when the device isfolded to form and maintain a representation of an elephants body, arearelement carrying a tail element extending from the back element, aforwardly extended element from the back element, and means whereby thehead form and the body form may be attached to each other to form arepresentation of an elephant. v

Signed at New York city in the county of New .York and State of NewYork. this 4th day of October, 1921. v

ALFRED z. BAKER,

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